Known seven of 10 women who experience pelvic pain also had migraine. Chronic pelvic pain is usually characterized by discomfort in the area between the hips and below the navel, for six months or more.
The condition affects 15 to 24 percent of women of childbearing age, similar to the prevalence of migraine in women about 20 percent. Migraine is usually perceived as a throbbing pain on one side of the head. Some patients also experience nausea and sensitivity to light.
In the new study, researchers examined the relationship between migraine and chronic pelvic pain in women, with and without endometriosis (a condition that causes the tissue of the lining of the uterus migrate to other parts of the body). The women included in the study over 46 years old, and has experienced migraines and pelvic pain, about 10 years.
Studies show, about 67 percent of women who experience chronic pelvic pain also had migraine. Then, as many as eight per cent three times more likely to experience migraines than women who are not experiencing pelvic pain and migraine problems. Migraine is more likely to occur in women with endometriosis than those without.
"Migraines are likely to have a close relationship with pelvic pain compared with endometriosis. Further research could create a better understanding about the treatment of migraine, endometriosis and chronic pelvic pain," said Professor Stephen Silberstein, head of the American Headache Society, as quoted by the Daily Mail.
Another theory connects the pain is that women with chronic pain who have become more sensitive to other sources of pain. That's because the nerve cells growing in terms of sensitivity in general.
